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ˈout-basket
[f. out a., out- 6 + basket n.]
In an office, etc.: a basket or tray for outgoing correspondence or other documents. Cf. out-tray.
Sometimes written as two separate words with out regarded adjectivally.
1940Amer. Speech XV. 247 His incoming mail is put in an in-basket and his outgoing mail in an out-basket. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral v. 115 He sealed the letter... He tossed it into the OUT basket. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 493/2 The phones stood primly, the in and out baskets were in their places, and he was in charge of it all. 1968Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 20 Aug. (1970) 704 It looks as if the Russians have emptied their out-basket to us. They have answered all of the President's correspondence. 1970[see in-basket]. |